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Mailform vs Middleman: What are the differences?
Mailform: Print and Mail in bulk from your browser. Send snail mail right from your browser (via USPS First Class Mail or Certified Mail); Middleman: A static site generator using all the shortcuts and tools in modern web development. Middleman is a command-line tool for creating static websites using all the shortcuts and tools of the modern web development environment.
Mailform belongs to "Printing API" category of the tech stack, while Middleman can be primarily classified under "Static Site Generators".
Some of the features offered by Mailform are:
- Upload Documents
- Set Addresses
- Get Delivery Confirmation
On the other hand, Middleman provides the following key features:
- Sass for DRY stylesheets
- CoffeeScript for safer and less verbose javascript
- Multiple asset management solutions, including Sprockets
Middleman is an open source tool with 6.49K GitHub stars and 696 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Middleman's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Mailform
Pros of Middleman
- Rails for static sites20
- Erb, haml, slim18
- Live reload17
- Easy setup7
- Emacs org-mode integration by middleman-org3
- Make front-end easy and rock solid again1